Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have. Take a seat. I think the way in which you young men criticise your elders is something shameful. I cannot understand how the spirit of reverence is so lacking. Your facts are often wrong. You launch out a tirade against the Faculty when the Corporation is to blame...
...that of a "suggestion," and would be expressed in civil terms; and I also supposed that severity in any editorial was not considered identical with ungentlemanly insinuations and abuse. Since I have been shown the error of my second supposition, I begin to see that my first is also wrong, and that I entirely overestimated the severity and importance of the unlucky editorial...
This explanation I willingly make, and I trust that it will be satisfactory. I must say, however, that the Advocate's remarks about my probable age, ability, and experience, though exceedingly sarcastic and venomous, have done little towards showing that the opinions advanced in my last letter are wrong. They are the opinions, not merely of the writer, but of some of the ablest men in the class; and if these men do not accept the editorial decisions of the Advocate, they certainly have a right to state their own views...
...eighteen inches from the pole. The track was laid out by a surveyor, and is a fifth-mile measured about two inches from the pole. Perhaps it should have been measured farther out, and we shall take steps to settle this point at once, and if the measurement is wrong, it will be rectified in the early spring. We regret extremely that any such mistake, if mistake it prove to be, should have occurred, but men seem to forget that fast time cannot be made on any track unless they really train, and if there was a single...
...feelings and is now probably repenting at leisure, we refrain from speaking; as we have said, it is a gross personal attack, which must now be causing deep regret to the hasty but gentlemanly editors of the Courant. Everybody is liable to lose his temper when put in the wrong, and we look upon this sad exhibition more in sorrow than in anger...